What I don't understand is Fort Pierce is struggling to be a better city, and six blocks away from downtown you've got something that looks like a third-world country. For that to go on for years and years is just insanity.


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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about ...
LEO AIKMAN
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
LEO TOLSTOY
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfactio...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
What helps people, helps business.
LEO BURNETT
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
LEO DUROCHER
Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.
LEO ROSTEN
I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state...
LEO TOLSTOY
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. G...
LEO DUROCHER
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going ...
LEO DUROCHER
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
LEO DUROCHER
It was Brooklyn against the world. They were not only complete fanatics, but they knew baseball like...
LEO DUROCHER
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.
LEO DUROCHER
I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my...
LEO DUROCHER
The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body sh...
LEO TOLSTOY
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Satire is focused bitterness.
LEO ROSTEN
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they ...
LEO TOLSTOY
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
LEO TOLSTOY
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that ...
LEO TOLSTOY
People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of une...
LEO XIII
If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
LEO ROSTEN
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very ...
LEO TOLSTOY
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY
I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fif...
LEO ROSTEN
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
LEO TOLSTOY
All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
LEO TOLSTOY
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this en...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
LEO AIKMAN
A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
LEO BAECK
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
LEO DUROCHER